#Art4Resilience: Announcing the 2022 Knowledge-into-Use award winners In the lead-up to the COP27 Resilience Hub, the Resilience Evidence Coalition launched the Knowledge-into-Use awards to highlight innovative and creative ways of facilitating the use of resilience knowledge. 48 individuals, groups and grassroots organisations submitted ideas in the form of games, cartoons, paintings, drawings, murals, theatre, short films, exhibits of local and Indigenous knowledge and more.

COP27 Resilience Hub report out now The COP27 Resilience Hub report provides a run down of the key resilience and adaptation outcomes from COP27 and the main messages and policy takeaways from the Resilience Hub. It has been developed from inputs from more than 70 Resilience Hub sessions, the four Regional Resilience Hubs that took place in the lead up to COP27, as well as over 15,000 people across the world who participated in-person and online.

Young climate actors building resilient communities around the world In the lead up to the COP27 Resilience Hub, the Resilience Knowledge Coalition (co-led by CDKN) launched a social media contest to highlight youth action from the local, national and global level. Young people from 43 countries shared videos, photos and paintings showcasing their resilience solutions.

Adaptation Futures 2023 The call for session proposals, abstracts and posters is now open for Adaptation Futures 2023, to be held in Montreal and virtually in October 2023. AF2023 also seeks to establish one or two regional hubs during the conference as a complement and alternative to attending the conference in person in Montreal.

Opportunity: Open call launched by Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, recently opened its call for ideas for the 2023 cycle. This call focuses on adaptation and gender-responsive climate finance, as well as ideas from Brazil, India, and Southern or East Africa.

COP27 creates new spaces for young people Zizipho Royi of CDKN reports on the increasingly loud voices of young people in the climate change negotiations, including during their own dedicated Youth and Future Generations Day.

COP27 offers mixed news for social inclusion in climate policy There was a mix of progress and backsliding on diversity and inclusion in climate policy-making, at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. CDKN's Mairi Dupar unpacks recent developments.

COP27 changes climate finance architecture with loss and damage decision, urges MDBs to transform Mairi Dupar and Lisa McNamara of CDKN assess how the COP27 decision and associated policy developments have the potential to reshape climate finance in 2023-24.

CDKN reacts to COP27 outcomes CDKN's CEO, Dr Shehnaaz Moosa, reacts to the outcomes of COP27, which concluded on 20 November in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dr Moosa discusses three big stories she identified, one of which highlights the hopeful and strong participation of young people and COP27's decision urging governments to take meaningful steps towards intergenerational equity, such as including young people in national delegations.

Climate crisis and water stress create a perfect storm for women: We need radical collaborations for gender-just climate solutions Addressing global stakeholders now engaged in COP27, researchers from CGIAR and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network come together to call for radical collaborations to achieve climate justice for women, girls and marginalised communities.

Opportunity: Catalytic Grants programme at the COP27 Resilience Hub The next round of catalytic grants will be launched at the COP27 Resilience Hub. Join the virtual networking event on 8 November to learn more and apply.

New phase of CDKN to accelerate equitable, financed and ecosystem-based action on climate change A new five-year phase of CDKN (2022-27) aims to advance gender-equitable and socially-inclusive climate-resilient action by mobilising knowledge-into-action, capacity and Southern climate leadership from local to global levels.